Attorney General Janet Mills sworn-in for new term

Augusta, Maine - Attorney General Janet T. Mills was administered the oath of office today by Governor Paul R. LePage, beginning her second consecutive term and third overall as Attorney General. In remarks delivered in the House Chamber following the swearing in, Attorney General Mills highlighted her Office's efforts to protect consumers' rights, prosecute domestic violence homicides and frauds against the state, protect children from abuse and fight drug trafficking.

Attorney General Mills focused on the terrible toll that drugs and domestic violence has taken on children in Maine over the last year. Mills noted that reports of child abuse and neglect have increased 58% over the past two years which translates into a much higher case load for the attorneys in the Attorney General's Child Protection Division. For the attorneys assigned to the Maine Drug Taskforce, 32 percent of the felony drug cases closed last year involved heroin, up from just 7 percent two years before. In 2014 961 babies born in Maine were affected by drugs and 176 people died from drug overdoses in 2013.

"The drug epidemic deserves our intensive and collaborative effort-from public education,